The sonnet Anthem for Doomed Youth’‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ criticizes war. The speaker is Wilfred Owen‚ whose tone is first bitter‚ angry and ironic. Then it’s filled with intense sadness and an endless feeling of emptiness. The poet uses poetic techniques such as diction‚ imagery‚ and sound to convey his idea. The title‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth’‚ gives the first impression of the poem. An anthem’‚ is a song of praise‚ perhaps sacred‚ so we get the impression that the poem might me about something
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Examination by Laura Wang of the poem “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening” In this poem‚ the speaker is familiar with his environment: he knows the woods and their owner (“Whose woods these are I think I know”: he knows the owner of the woods and where he lives: “His house is in the village”); in “My little horse must find it queer […] He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake”‚ the speaker interprets the horse’s movements and behavior‚ which suggests he is familiar
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Why GM Matters is a book written about the history of General Motors Company and the struggle they endured during the 2008 economic recession. The book is broken into three parts; the first part explains what went wrong with General Motors Company including the workers that would be affected if General Motors Company had to move their production to another country or if they had to close the doors on General Motors Company and let Toyota buy them out. The book also discusses in the first part‚ the
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“Break Away” Jennica Jones November‚ 9 Per.4 Some people in this world don’t like to talk and they need someone to talk for them well that is what this song means to me. How she wants to break free and go on her own.To have a opinion and to say what you are thinking. What the song “Break Away “ means to me is that she is trying to tell her family that she is ready to leave her home. Like if she was a bird and she wanted to leave the nest and she is spreading her wings and
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Boom! One blast changes your life and your survival instincts start kicking in. The book Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars is about the struggle of a nuclear crisis and preventing one from happening. What would you do if you were in a nuclear disaster/attack?? I will tell you what I would do in the event of a nuclear disaster/attack. I would find a safe shelter‚ find my family and prepare for more attacks. In order to survive you need to stay on your A-game and be ready for anything and that is what
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Passage from Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a re- 1 placement‚ too. As a part of a gun crew‚ he had helped 2 to fire one shot in anger---from a 57-millimeter antitank 3 gun. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening 4 of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. The gun 5 lapped up snow and vegetation with blowtorch 6 thirty feet long. The flame left a black arrow on the 7 ground‚ showing Germans exactly where the gun 8 was hidden
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Donald Justice’s poem entitled "The Missing Person" gives the reader an image of a person who does not know who they really are. Many people suffer from this lack of knowledge as to who they are and what significance their presence holds in this busy world. What does one do when all they have is themselves and they don’t even know who they are? "The Missing Person" explores this dilemma. The poem speaks from deep down into the depths of a persons mind. It conveys a place that many do not wish
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The passage taken from “The Comfort of Strangers “by Ian McEwan essentially describes the want of two sisters Eva and Maria to look beautiful and furthermore the denial of their parents towards the girls’ desires. It is written in the third person i.e. the omniscient. The passage conveys few symbols: Beauty through the want of the sisters to look gorgeous ie. lipsticks‚ mascaras make up etc. ‚ The truth and honesty through the confession of the boy. Owing to the fact that‚ when cosmetics are used
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“Behaviour of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden” In the poem “Behaviour of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden” by Keith Douglas‚ a beautiful woman uses the power of seduction to attract many men. Douglas uses simile to describe the woman as a “white stone” while calling men different types of fish like “magnate‚ an important fish” and “flat-eyed fish”. Throughout the whole poem‚ Douglas seems to use the word “fish” many times. It seems he is describing the environment as an aquatic environment. Since
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e novel‚ Cry‚ the beloved country is written by Alan Paton‚ a great South African writer. The book was published in 1948 and became world wide bestseller. Alan Paton mainly discusses the struggle for Africa and especially the conflicts between the Whites and the Blacks in South Africa. He wants the people to realize that the destruction or breaking apart of a country like South Africa can be mended through hope and this hope can only be reached if people accept and love each other as fellow human
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